Susan Vanderplas

The worst feeling is getting annoyed with LLM use and then grading something so bad that you start thinking "I wished this one had used an LLM" in the back of your head 😂

Hot dog spill shuts down highway in Pennsylvania commuters' wurst nightmare By Associated Press UPDATED: August 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM ET SHREWSBURY, Pa. (AP) - A truckload of hot dogs spilled across a Pennsylvania interstate Friday after a crash that briefly clogged the heavily traveled artery in both directions.

A writer waits a lifetime for a moment like this.

Maybe a little nerdy for some but also a fantastic intro to #rspatial for those that want to learn...

Stephen Colbert sets ratings record in wake of cancellation.

Adding another example to my college class folder of "wtf dataviz"

NEW: Bessent ADMITS that the accounts created by the billionaire bailout bill are a “backdoor to privatizing social security.”

Spotify Is Forcing Users to Undergo Face Scanning to Access Explicit Content Submit to biometric face scanning or risk your account being deleted, Spotify says, following the enactment of the UK's Online Safety Act.

Spotify is now instituting face scans and ID checks ... to listen to music.

Porn was only ever the excuse. The only thing that surprises me is how quickly the government surveillance mandate has spread to absolutely every service we use.

www.404media.co/spotify-uk-a...

I don’t want to say I immediately had a visceral reaction when I saw the DHS post but … yeah… I did …

Right on cue with the fascism.

Good. Keep ‘em coming

I once read a comment saying something like "if you choose not to laugh at farts, your life will contain less laughter but still the same amount of farts". I think about that a lot.

Zotero has changed my life for the better. What a marvelous piece of software.

Most of adulthood is just whispering “what the hell is going on” and pretending you get it.

Ugh, I was sure I was dying last time I had strep. I hope you recover quickly!

We Are Fumbling the Fight Against AIDS Senate Republicans saved some PEPFAR funding at the last moment—but Trump has already heavily damaged the program.

Congressional Republicans are being a little more cautious here than usual, but not enough; they're helping us lose the fight against AIDS. A reminder from @citizencohn.bsky.social of the real human costs of cutting foreign aid:

If they could make sighted people click too, they absolutely would. 😬

I mean, sure, "Elephants never forget" is cute and all, but "corvids carry generational grudges" is both factually correct and _sick as hell_

The paperback, with new preface, coming next month. Preorder now!
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725302...

*Learning visualization in Python as an R user*
#ggplot

“We cannot live in fear. AAUP and our partners will not cower in silence. We will stand with & for higher education writ large. We will stand for democracy.”

— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

Colbert comes out swinging. Gonna be a fun 10 months...

I'm colorblind, but it makes me wish for a freaking color coded standard or something to indicate that the cable is compatible with the power rating, etc.

All the States Where DOJ is Demanding Voting Data Read more here.

If you are not paying attention to this, you are doing exactly what Trump and the GOP want. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

You didn't need a video of a cute little baby #elephant chasing a bird. But, here you go #bluesky ... 😊

👇🏼👊

Rabid RFK Jr. Bites Foreign Dignitary WASHINGTON—In what may be their first apology issued for the behavior of a Cabinet member, White House officials reportedly apologized to a foreign dignitary Tuesday after the man was bitten by a rabi...

Rabid RFK Jr. Bites Foreign Dignitary

Oh, & replace your Ring cameras w/a local-first, no cloud ones (incl. doorbell). They've re-upped their partnership with law enforcement and your cameras are also now being used by ICE to help target immigrants and throw them in concentration camps.

Def feel horrible if you keep & use Ring stuff.

John Lewis walked, bled, and lived for justice.

Five years since his passing, we honor him the only way we know how:

By refusing to stay silent and getting in more Good Trouble.

The Most Interesting Email I Ever Received: Remembering the Incredible Life of DIY Geneticist Jill Viles In 2013, ProPublica reporter David Epstein was contacted by a woman with a wild story and a batch of photos she believed were clues to the mystery of her condition. Turns out, she was right.

NEW: Remembering the Incredible Life of DIY Geneticist Jill Viles

In 2013, ProPublica reporter David Epstein was contacted by a woman with a wild story and a batch of photos she believed were clues to the mystery of her condition. Turns out, she was right.